Health Sector, State and Decentralised Institutions in India

This book describes the transition in Indian healthcare system since independence and contributes to the ongoing debate within development and institutional economics on the approaches towards reform in the public health system.

Autorentext

Shailender Kumar Hooda is Associate Professor at the Institute for Studies in Industrial Development, New Delhi, India. He completed his PhD in Economics from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He has over a decade of teaching and research experience. Previously, he taught at the University of Delhi and Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak, and has worked with the National Council of Applied Economic Research and the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, New Delhi. He works on the political economy of health and healthcare, health economics and policy, decentralisation in health, corporatisation of healthcare, health and pharmaceutical industry, institutional economics and applied econometrics. He specialises in handling large-scale survey data relating to the Indian economy, and in conducting and designing primary surveys. His writings have appeared in magazines, newspapers and reputed journals. He has delivered several projects funded by national and international agencies.

Inhalt

1. Health System Dynamics: Evolution of Health Policies in India Part 1: State as a Provider of Health Care Services 2. Investing in Health: Health Policies and Expenditure Priorities 3. Rejuvenating the Public System: Efficiency in Resource Allocation Part 2: Institutional Reforms: Decentralisation in Service Delivery 4. Politicising the Reprioritisation of Health Expenditure 5. Decentralisation in Health: Rationale, Measurements and Effectiveness 6. Decentralisation, Access and Service Delivery Part 3: New Financing and Policy Paradigms: Redefining the Role of State 7. Towards Privatising Health Care: At What Cost? 8. Changing Nature of Healthcare Financing: Who Benefits?